Folding traveling bag



Patented Nov. 3, 1925.v

vUNITED STATES MARY E. DEMPSEY, OF SAN LUIS OIBISPO, CALIFORNIA.

FOLDING TRAVELING BAG.

Application flled October 9, 1,922. Serial No. 593,402.

To all whom it may con-com:

Be it known that I, MARY E. DEMPSEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of San Luis Obispo, county of San Luis Obispo, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Traveling Bags, of which the folowing is a specification.

My invention has' vfoiits object a collapsible or folding traveling'bag adapted to be suspended fromthe; back of the front seat, top or other frame structure'of'an automobile and which may be outfolded or `extended and employed for containing overcoats, clothes, or other luggage.

My bag is provided with special suspension features more fully set forth below, and when not in use may be collapsed and folded into a small space and carried in the ordinary side pockets of an automobile.

Other objects will appear'from the drawings and Specifications which follow.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my bag outfolded or extended ready for use.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my bag with the front partly broken away to show the suspension and supporting elements.

Fig. 3 is a detail of the supporting members in folded or collapsible position.

Fig. 4 shows a complete bag as collapsed when out of use and ready for storing away,

Throughout the figures similar numerals refer to i'dentical parts.

The bag is preferably Constructed of leather, Canvas, or other flexible material cut in suitable shape and provided with snaps whereby the sides 1 and 2, the ends 3 and 4, the bottom 5, may be joined together, making` a container which may be covered by the top 6, and which top may also be snapped along the edges 7 and locked by the basp and staple, or by the padlock 8.

As here described my bag forms a closed container into which any luggage desired of said bag.

may be packed. ,Along one of the inner edges I mount one leg 9 ofa hinge member and around this and passing through the material of the bag and extending as loops o n the outside thereof are a plurality of rlngs a's 10 and 11, which may be employed to strap or support the bag in suspendedl position within a vehicle. The leg 9 is preferably Secured to the material of the top 6 i and side 2 by sewing or otherwise fixing a flap member 12 thereover.`

The l'eg 9 is hi-ngedwat 13 to a second leg 14, and thus is made foldable.

When the leg lis folded down on the 1 leg 9 as shown in Fig. 3 the materialof the bag being flexible, it may be rolled into the collapsed form shown in Fig. 4 with the reinforcing member consisting of the legs 9 and 14 and the hinge 13 collapsed as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 and substantially in thel position of the leg 9 of Fig. 2.

The bag may be suspended from eitherthe supporting leg 9 by means of rings 10, 11 or from leg 14 by means of rings 15, 16, depending upon the space available or the nature of its contents.

Although I have shown supporting` members comprising two legs hinged together, it will now be clear to one skilled in the artthat any number of legs may be hinged together to provide stiffening for other edges or portions of the bag, and I want to bel understood as covering all such variations.

I claim:

1. In a foldable traveling bag, a member comprising a. pair of legs hinged together, each of said legs provided with a plurality of rings as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A folding traveling bag comprising parts as lset forth in claim 1 wherein one of said legs is securedalong one of the edges MARY nnnMrsEY, I 

